When you think about major league baseball, the Boston Red Sox are usually among the first franchises to pop into your head. There's no way to avoid it, given the constant media coverage of the club and of its rivalry with the New York Yankees...

The past couple of weeks have been hauntingly familiar to Red Sox fans. After suffering through a 2010 that was brutally derailed by injuries, Boston has, for the most part, enjoyed a healthier season this year...

Former Met, Marlin and Royal Mike Jacobs, who was playing in the Rockies ' system at AAA Colorado Springs, has become the first athlete in a major American sport to be suspended specifically for HGH use ...

Boston 's version of a blockbuster trade at this year's deadline was acquiring Erik Bedard from Seattle in a three-team swap. And while that addition cost the Sox very little and was a reasonably good decision, it didn't solve any long-term problems...

Since the inception of the designated hitter in 1973, the Boston Red Sox franchise has almost always had at least one hitter finish in the AL's top 10 in OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging percentage)...

Monday, ESPNBoston confirmed a weekend report by CSNNE.com that starter Clay Buchholz has a stress fracture in his lower back. While the fracture won't require surgery, the nature of the injury means that Buchholz's season is over...

Over the past few weeks, few team were linked to more players than were the Red Sox . It seemed that at one point or another, every player on the trading block was mentioned in the same breath as Boston...

The Boston Red Sox have traded infielder Yamaico Navarro and pitching prospect Kendal Volz for Kansas City infielder Mike Aviles . On the surface, it's a bit of an odd move, as Aviles is going through a difficult 2011...

One phenomenon at work this week in Major League Baseball is a basic principle of economics. As the supply dwindles, demand spikes, and the price that teams are willing to pay to add a quality player rises quickly and substantially...

In recent years, the Boston Red Sox have excelled at development top-tier talent within the organization. Dustin Pedroia, Kevin Youkilis, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jon Lester, Clay Buchholz, Daniel Bard and Jonathan Papelbon just to name a few...

As the Red Sox turned a hot May into a solid June, establishing themselves as a contender for the AL East, fans' thoughts turned away from the team's slow start and toward what the club could do to improve...

It's that time of year again, when MLB teams begin to separate into buyers and sellers. The buyers, looking to improve their chances at making the playoffs, will be trading from areas of strength to add key players down the stretch...